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Cloudflare decided not only to fight the case, but to fight all of Blackbird’s patents, crowdsourcing and funding searches into prior art on any patent held by Blackbird Technologies, and arguing that the company was engaging in questionable legal practices — acting both as a patent holding company and …
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Microsoft had requested more than $1 million in damages for the infringement of patents related to Microsoft Office (i.e., the Microsoft Office patents). … parties will submit a status report and/or stipulation regarding the need for any briefing as relating to JMOL (Judgment as a Matter of Law) and damages.
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Greene’s Energy Group, challenging the constitutionality of “inter partes review” (IPR) proceedings, has received the lion’s share of coverage, the U.S. Supreme Court’s other IPR case—SAS Institute v. Matal—warrants attention. The case addresses whether 35 U.S.C. Section 318(a) requires the Patent …
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Founded in 1930, McDonald Hopkins is a business advisory and advocacy law firm with locations in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Miami, and West Palm Beach. With more than 50 service and industry teams, the firm has the expertise and knowledge to meet the growing number of legal and …
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The guidance states that national law, EU law, and other international provisions included in relevant treaties and international agreements on industrial and intellectual property should be taken in account to elaborate the definition of the listed qualifying IP and the related protection requirements.
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An US court has trashed a patent at the center of Cloudflare’s legal war with patent troll Blackbird Technologies – and thrown out the latter’s case against the web biz. In a victory for Cloudflare, Judge Vince Chhabria, sitting in a northern district court of California, ruled on Monday [PDF]... Continue reading
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Law360 (February 13, 2018, 1:47 PM EST) — Crowell & Moring LLP has added to its intellectual property group’s New York office a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney who brings more than a decade of experience in IP litigation and patent portfolio management. Crowell & Moring announced on Jan.
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The firm’s complaint alleged that Patent & Trademark Association Inc (PTMA) had engaged in false advertising, unfair competition, deceptive acts and practices, and tortious interference with prospective economic relations by marketing to trademark owners the prospective “publication” of their trademark …
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Law360 (February 13, 2018, 12:34 PM EST) — How do you more effectively present a patent case to a jury? One way is to avoid some of the common mistakes that occur. This article highlights a few mistakes and suggests solutions. It is based on my 30-plus years of providing... Continue reading
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A federal judge in San Francisco has unequivocally ruled against a non-practicing entity that had sued Cloudflare for patent infringement. The judicial order effectively ends the case that Blackbird—which Cloudflare had dubbed a “patent troll”—had brought against the well-known security firm and …
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